Help for package GPBayes

Type:

Package

Title:

Tools for Gaussian Process Modeling in Uncertainty Quantification

Version:

0.1.0-6

Date:

2024-04-24

Maintainer:

Pulong Ma <mpulong@gmail.com>

Description:

Gaussian processes ('GPs') have been widely used to model spatial data, 'spatio'-temporal data, and computer experiments in diverse areas of statistics including spatial statistics, 'spatio'-temporal statistics, uncertainty quantification, and machine learning. This package creates basic tools for fitting and prediction based on 'GPs' with spatial data, 'spatio'-temporal data, and computer experiments. Key characteristics for this GP tool include: (1) the comprehensive implementation of various covariance functions including the 'Matérn' family and the Confluent 'Hypergeometric' family with isotropic form, tensor form, and automatic relevance determination form, where the isotropic form is widely used in spatial statistics, the tensor form is widely used in design and analysis of computer experiments and uncertainty quantification, and the automatic relevance determination form is widely used in machine learning; (2) implementations via Markov chain Monte Carlo ('MCMC') algorithms and optimization algorithms for GP models with all the implemented covariance functions. The methods for fitting and prediction are mainly implemented in a Bayesian framework; (3) model evaluation via Fisher information and predictive metrics such as predictive scores; (4) built-in functionality for simulating 'GPs' with all the implemented covariance functions; (5) unified implementation to allow easy specification of various 'GPs'.

License:

GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]

Encoding:

UTF-8

BugReports:

https://github.com/pulongma/GPBayes/issues

Imports:

Rcpp (≥ 1.0.1), stats, methods

LinkingTo:

Rcpp, RcppEigen, RcppProgress

SystemRequirements:

GNU Scientific Library version >= 2.5

NeedsCompilation:

yes

Packaged:

2024-04-25 00:31:01 UTC; mapulong

Author:

Pulong Ma [aut, cre]

RoxygenNote:

7.3.1

Repository:

CRAN

Date/Publication:

2024-04-25 02:40:03 UTC

Tools for Gaussian Stochastic Process Modeling in Uncertainty Quantification

Description

Gaussian processes (GPs) have been widely used to model spatial data, spatio-temporal data, and computer experiments in diverse areas of statistics including spatial statistics, spatio-temporal statistics, uncertainty quantification, and machine learning. This package creates basic tools for fitting and prediction based on GPs with spatial data, spatio-temporal data, and computer experiments. Key characteristics for this GP tool include: (1) the comprehensive implementation of various covariance functions including the Matérn family and the Confluent Hypergeometric family with isotropic form, tensor form, and automatic relevance determination form, where the isotropic form is widely used in spatial statistics, the tensor form is widely used in design and analysis of computer experiments and uncertainty quantification, and the automatic relevance determination form is widely used in machine learning; (2) implementations via Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms and optimization algorithms for GP models with all the implemented covariance functions. The methods for fitting and prediction are mainly implemented in a Bayesian framework; (3) model evaluation via Fisher information and predictive metrics such as predictive scores; (4) built-in functionality for simulating GPs with all the implemented covariance functions; (5) unified implementation to allow easy specification of various GPs.

Details

Data types: For many scientific applications, spatial data, spatio-temporal data, and computer experiments arise naturally. This package provides a comprehensive set of basic tools to fit GaSP models for univariate and multivariate spatial data, spatio-temporal data, computer experiments. Various covariance functions have been implemented including the Confluent Hypergeometric covariance functions, the Matérn covariance functions, the Gaussian covariance function, the generalized Cauchy covariance function. These covariance families can be in isotropic form, in tensor form, or in automatic relevance determination form. The routines kernel and ikernel contain the details of implementation.
Model simulation: This package can simulate realizations from GaSP for different types of data including spatial data, spatio-temporal data, and computer experiments. This feature is quite useful in part because benchmarks are used to evaluate the performance of GaSP models. This functionality is implemented in the routine gp.sim for unconditional simulation and gp.condsim for conditional simulation.
Model fitting: Both maximum likelihood methods (or its variants) and Bayes estimation methods such as maximum a posterior (MAP) and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are implemented. In this package, the nugget parameter is included in the model by default for the sake of better prediction performance and stable computation in practice. In addition, the smoothness parameter in covariance functions such as the Matérn class and the Confluent Hypergeometric class can be estimated. The routine gp.optim provides optimization based estimation approaches and the routine gp.mcmc provides MCMC algorithms based estimation approaches.
Model prediction: Prediction is made based on the parameter estimation procedure. If maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) methods are used for parameter estimation, the plug-in approach is used for prediction in the sense that MLEs of parameters are plugged into posterior predictive distributions. If partial Bayes methods (e.g., maximum a posterior) are used, the plug-in approach is used for prediction as well. If fully Bayes methods via MCMC algorithms are used, posterior samples are drawn from posterior predictive distributions. The routine gp.mcmc allows prediction to be made within the MCMC algorithms, while the routine gp.predict generates prediction with estimated parameters.
Model assessment: Tools for assessing model adequacy are included in a Bayesian context. Deviance information criteria (DIC), log pointwise predictive density, and log joint predictive density can be computed via the routine gp.model.adequacy.

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

References

Cressie, N. (1993). “Statistics for Spatial Data.” John Wiley & Sons, New York, revised edition.
Ma and Bhadra (2023). “Beyond Matérn: On a Class of Interpretable Confluent Hypergeometric Covariance Functions.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 118(543), 2045-2058.
Sacks, Jerome, William J Welch, Toby J Mitchell, and Henry P Wynn. (1989). “Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments.” Statistical Science 4(4). Institute of Mathematical Statistics: 409–435.
Santner, Thomas J., Brian J. Williams, and William I. Notz. (2018). “The Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments”; 2nd Ed. New York: Springer.
Stein, Michael L. (1999). “Interpolation of Spatial Data.” Springer Science & Business Media, New York.

Examples

#####################################################################
          

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############## Examples for fitting univariate GP models ############

## Set up the Sine example from the tgp package 
 code = function(x){
  y = (sin(pi*x/5) + 0.2*cos(4*pi*x/5))*(x<=9.6) + (x/10-1)*(x>9.6) 
 }
 n=100
 input = seq(0, 20, length=n)
 XX = seq(0, 20, length=99)
 Ztrue = code(input)
 set.seed(1234)
 output = Ztrue + rnorm(length(Ztrue), sd=0.1)
 df.data = data.frame(x=c(input), y=output, y.true=Ztrue)

 ## fitting a GaSP model with the Cauchy prior
 fit = GaSP(formula=~1, output, input, 
           param=list(range=3, nugget=0.1, nu=2.5), 
           smooth.est=FALSE, input.new=XX,
           cov.model=list(family="matern", form="isotropic"),
           proposal=list(range=.35, nugget=.8, nu=0.8),
           dtype="Euclidean", model.fit="Cauchy_prior", nsample=3000, 
           burnin=500, verbose=TRUE)

 ## fitting a GaSP model with the beta prior
 fit = GaSP(formula=~1, output, input, 
           param=list(range=3, nugget=0.1, nu=2.5), 
           smooth.est=FALSE, input.new=XX,
           cov.model=list(family="matern", form="isotropic"),
           prior=list(range=list(a=1,b=1,lb=0,ub=20),
                    nugget=list(a=1,b=1,lb=0,ub=var(output)),
           proposal=list(range=.35, nugget=.8, nu=0.8),
           dtype="Euclidean", model.fit="Beta_prior", nsample=3000, 
           burnin=500, verbose=TRUE))

## fitting a GaSP model with the marginal maximum likelihood approach
 fit = GaSP(formula=~1, output, input, 
           param=list(range=3, nugget=0.1, nu=2.5), 
           smooth.est=FALSE, input.new=XX,
           cov.model=list(family="matern", form="isotropic"),
           dtype="Euclidean", model.fit="MMLE", verbose=TRUE)

## fitting a GaSP model with the profile maximum likelihood approach
 fit = GaSP(formula=~1, output, input, 
           param=list(range=3, nugget=0.1, nu=2.5), 
           smooth.est=FALSE, input.new=XX,
           cov.model=list(family="matern", form="isotropic"),
           dtype="Euclidean", model.fit="MPLE", verbose=TRUE)

Modified Bessel function of the second kind

Description

This function calls the GSL scientific library to evaluate the modified Bessel function of the second kind.

Usage

BesselK(nu, z)

Arguments

nu

a real positive value

z

a real positive value

Value

a numerical value

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

The Confluent Hypergeometric correlation function proposed by Ma and Bhadra (2023)

Description

This function computes the Confluent Hypergeometric correlation function given a distance matrix. The Confluent Hypergeometric correlation function is given by

C(h) = \frac{\Gamma(\nu+\alpha)}{\Gamma(\nu)} \mathcal{U}\left(\alpha, 1-\nu, \biggr(\frac{h}{\beta}\biggr)^2 \right),

where \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \beta is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{U}(\cdot) is the confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind. Note that this parameterization of the CH covariance is different from the one in Ma and Bhadra (2023). For details about this covariance, see Ma and Bhadra (2023; doi:10.1080/01621459.2022.2027775).

Usage

CH(d, range, tail, nu)

Arguments

d

a matrix of distances

range

a numerical value containing the range parameter

tail

a numerical value containing the tail decay parameter

nu

a numerical value containing the smoothness parameter

Value

a numerical matrix

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Building, fitting, predicting for a GaSP model

Description

This function serves as a wrapper to build, fit, and make prediction for a Gaussian process model. It calls on functions gp, gp.mcmc, gp.optim, gp.predict.

Usage

GaSP(
  formula = ~1,
  output,
  input,
  param,
  smooth.est = FALSE,
  input.new = NULL,
  cov.model = list(family = "CH", form = "isotropic"),
  model.fit = "Cauchy_prior",
  prior = list(),
  proposal = list(range = 0.35, tail = 2, nugget = 0.8, nu = 0.8),
  nsample = 5000,
  burnin = 1000,
  opt = NULL,
  bound = NULL,
  dtype = "Euclidean",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

formula

an object of formula class that specifies regressors; see formula for details.

output

a numerical vector including observations or outputs in a GaSP

input

a matrix including inputs in a GaSP

param

a list including values for regression parameters, covariance parameters, and nugget variance parameter. The specification of param should depend on the covariance model.

The regression parameters are denoted by coeff. Default value is \mathbf{0}.
The marginal variance or partial sill is denoted by sig2. Default value is 1.
The nugget variance parameter is denoted by nugget for all covariance models. Default value is 0.
For the Confluent Hypergeometric class, range is used to denote the range parameter \beta. tail is used to denote the tail decay parameter \alpha. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu.
For the generalized Cauchy class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. tail is used to denote the tail decay parameter \alpha. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu.
For the Matérn class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu. When \nu=0.5, the Matérn class corresponds to the exponential covariance.
For the powered-exponential class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter. When \nu=2, the powered-exponential class corresponds to the Gaussian covariance.

smooth.est

a logical value indicating whether smoothness parameter will be estimated.

input.new

a matrix of new input locations

cov.model

a list of two strings: family, form, where family indicates the family of covariance functions including the Confluent Hypergeometric class, the Matérn class, the Cauchy class, the powered-exponential class. form indicates the specific form of covariance structures including the isotropic form, tensor form, automatic relevance determination form.

family

CH

The Confluent Hypergeometric correlation function is given by

C(h) = \frac{\Gamma(\nu+\alpha)}{\Gamma(\nu)} \mathcal{U}\left(\alpha, 1-\nu, \left(\frac{h}{\beta}\right)^2\right),

where \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \beta is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{U}(\cdot) is the confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind. For details about this covariance, see Ma and Bhadra (2023; doi:10.1080/01621459.2022.2027775).

cauchy

The generalized Cauchy covariance is given by

C(h) = \left\{ 1 + \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \right\}^{-\alpha/\nu},

where \phi is the range parameter. \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter with default value at 2.

matern

The Matérn correlation function is given by

C(h)=\frac{2^{1-\nu}}{\Gamma(\nu)} \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \mathcal{K}_{\nu}\left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right),

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{K}_{\nu}(\cdot) is the modified Bessel function of the second kind of order \nu.

exp

The exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp(-h/\phi),

where \phi is the range parameter. This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=0.5.

matern_3_2

The Matérn correlation with \nu=1.5.

matern_5_2

The Matérn correlation with \nu=2.5.

powexp

The powered-exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left\{-\left(\frac{h}{\phi}\right)^{\nu}\right\},

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter.

gauss

The Gaussian correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left(-\frac{h^2}{\phi^2}\right),

where \phi is the range parameter.

form

isotropic

This indicates the isotropic form of covariance functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0(\|\mathbf{h}\|; \boldsymbol \theta),

where \| \mathbf{h}\| denotes the Euclidean distance or the great circle distance for data on sphere. C^0(\cdot) denotes any isotropic covariance family specified in family.

tensor

This indicates the tensor product of correlation functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = \prod_{i=1}^d C^0(|h_i|; \boldsymbol \theta_i),

where d is the dimension of input space. h_i is the distance along the ith input dimension. This type of covariance structure has been often used in Gaussian process emulation for computer experiments.

ARD

This indicates the automatic relevance determination form. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0\left(\sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^d\frac{h_i^2}{\phi^2_i}}; \boldsymbol \theta \right),

where \phi_i denotes the range parameter along the ith input dimension.

model.fit

a string indicating the choice of priors on correlation parameters:

Cauchy_prior: This indicates that a fully Bayesian approach with objective priors is used for parameter estimation, where location-scale parameters are assigned with constant priors and correlation parameters are assigned with half-Cauchy priors (default).
Ref_prior: This indicates that a fully Bayesian approach with objective priors is used for parameter estimation, where location-scale parameters are assigned with constant priors and correlation parameters are assigned with reference priors. This is only supported for isotropic covariance functions. For details, see gp.mcmc.
Beta_prior: This indicates that a fully Bayesian approach with subjective priors is used for parameter estimation, where location-scale parameters are assigned with constant priors and correlation parameters are assigned with beta priors parameterized as Beta(a, b, lb, ub). In the beta distribution, lb and ub are the support for correlation parameters, and they should be determined based on domain knowledge. a and b are two shape parameters with default values at 1, corresponding to the uniform prior over the support (lb, ub).
MPLE: This indicates that the maximum profile likelihood estimation (MPLE) is used.
MMLE: This indicates that the maximum marginal likelihood estimation (MMLE) is used.
MAP: This indicates that the marginal/integrated posterior is maximized.

prior

a list containing tuning parameters in prior distribution. This is used only if a subjective Bayes estimation method with informative priors is used.

proposal

a list containing tuning parameters in proposal distribution. This is used only if a Bayes estimation method is used.

nsample

an integer indicating the number of MCMC samples.

burnin

an integer indicating the burn-in period.

opt

a list of arguments to setup the optim routine. Current implementation uses three arguments:

method: The optimization method: Nelder-Mead or L-BFGS-B.
lower: The lower bound for parameters.
upper: The upper bound for parameters.

bound

Default value is NULL. Otherwise, it should be a list containing the following elements depending on the covariance class:

nugget: a list of bounds for the nugget parameter. It is a list containing lower bound lb and upper bound ub with default value list(lb=0, ub=Inf).
range: a list of bounds for the range parameter. It has default value range=list(lb=0, ub=Inf) for the Confluent Hypergeometric covariance, the Matérn covariance, exponential covariance, Gaussian covariance, powered-exponential covariance, and Cauchy covariance. The log of range parameterization is used: \log(\phi).
tail: a list of bounds for the tail decay parameter. It has default value list(lb=0, ub=Inf)

for the Confluent Hypergeometric covariance and the Cauchy covariance.

nu: a list of bounds for the smoothness parameter. It has default value list(lb=0, ub=Inf) for the Confluent Hypergeometric covariance and the Matérn covariance. when the powered-exponential or Cauchy class is used, it has default value nu=list(lb=0, ub=2). This can be achieved by specifying the lower bound in opt.

dtype

a string indicating the type of distance:

Euclidean: Euclidean distance is used. This is the default choice.
GCD: Great circle distance is used for data on sphere.

verbose

a logical value. If it is TRUE, the MCMC progress bar is shown.

Value

a list containing the S4 object gp and prediction results

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Examples


code = function(x){
y = (sin(pi*x/5) + 0.2*cos(4*pi*x/5))*(x<=9.6) + (x/10-1)*(x>9.6) 
return(y)
}
n=100
input = seq(0, 20, length=n)
XX = seq(0, 20, length=99)
Ztrue = code(input)
set.seed(1234)
output = Ztrue + rnorm(length(Ztrue), sd=0.1)

# fitting a GaSP model with the objective Bayes approach
fit = GaSP(formula=~1, output, input,  
          param=list(range=3, nugget=0.1, nu=2.5), 
          smooth.est=FALSE, input.new=XX,
          cov.model=list(family="matern", form="isotropic"),
          proposal=list(range=.35, nugget=.8, nu=0.8),
          dtype="Euclidean", model.fit="Cauchy_prior", nsample=50, 
          burnin=10, verbose=TRUE)

Confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind

Description

This function calls the GSL scientific library to evaluate the confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind; see Abramowitz and Stegun 1972, p.505.

Usage

HypergU(a, b, x)

Arguments

a

a real value

b

a real value

x

a real value

Value

a numerical value

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

The generalized Cauchy correlation function

Description

This function computes the generalized Cauchy correlation function given a distance matrix. The generalized Cauchy covariance is given by

C(h) = \left\{ 1 + \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \right\}^{-\alpha/\nu},

where \phi is the range parameter. \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. The case where \nu=2 corresponds to the Cauchy covariance model, which is infinitely differentiable.

Usage

cauchy(d, range, tail, nu)

Arguments

d

a matrix of distances

range

a numerical value containing the range parameter

tail

a numerical value containing the tail decay parameter

nu

a numerical value containing the smoothness parameter

Value

a numerical matrix

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Find the correlation parameter given effective range

Description

This function finds the correlation parameter given effective range

Usage

cor.to.par(
  d,
  param,
  family = "CH",
  cor.target = 0.05,
  lower = NULL,
  upper = NULL,
  tol = .Machine$double.eps
)

Arguments

d

a numerical value containing the effective range

param

a list containing correlation parameters. The specification of param should depend on the covariance model. If the parameter value is NULL, this function will find its value given the effective range via root-finding function uniroot.

For the Confluent Hypergeometric class, range is used to denote the range parameter \beta. tail is used to denote the tail decay parameter \alpha. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu.
For the generalized Cauchy class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. tail is used to denote the tail decay parameter \alpha. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu.
For the Matérn class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu. When \nu=0.5, the Matérn class corresponds to the exponential covariance.
For the powered-exponential class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter. When \nu=2, the powered-exponential class corresponds to the Gaussian covariance.

family

a string indicating the type of covariance structure. The following correlation functions are implemented:

CH

The Confluent Hypergeometric correlation function is given by

C(h) = \frac{\Gamma(\nu+\alpha)}{\Gamma(\nu)} \mathcal{U}\left(\alpha, 1-\nu, \left(\frac{h}{\beta}\right)^2\right),

cauchy

The generalized Cauchy covariance is given by

C(h) = \left\{ 1 + \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \right\}^{-\alpha/\nu},

where \phi is the range parameter. \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter.

matern

The Matérn correlation function is given by

C(h)=\frac{2^{1-\nu}}{\Gamma(\nu)} \left(\frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \mathcal{K}_{\nu}\left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right),

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{K}_{\nu}(\cdot) is the modified Bessel function of the second kind of order \nu.

exp

The exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp(-h/\phi),

where \phi is the range parameter. This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=0.5.

matern_3_2

The Matérn correlation with \nu=1.5.

matern_5_2

The Matérn correlation with \nu=2.5.

cor.target

a numerical value. The default value is 0.05, which means that correlation parameters are searched such that the correlation is approximately 0.05.

lower

a numerical value. This sets the lower bound to find the correlation parameter via the R function uniroot.

upper

a numerical value. This sets the upper bound to find the correlation parameter via the R function uniroot.

tol

a numerical value. This sets the precision of the solution with default value specified as the machine precision .Machine$double.eps in R.

Value

a numerical value of correlation parameters

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Examples


range = cor.to.par(1,param=list(tail=0.5,nu=2.5), family="CH")
tail = cor.to.par(1,param=list(range=0.5,nu=2.5), family="CH")
range = cor.to.par(1,param=list(nu=2.5),family="matern")

A wraper to construct the derivative of correlation matrix with respect to correlation parameters

Description

This function wraps existing built-in routines to construct the derivative of correlation matrix with respect to correlation parameters.

Usage

deriv_kernel(d, range, tail, nu, covmodel)

Arguments

d

a matrix or a list of distances returned from distance.

range

a vector of range parameters

tail

a vector of tail decay parameters

nu

a vector of smoothness parameters

covmodel

family

CH

The Confluent Hypergeometric correlation function is given by

C(h) = \frac{\Gamma(\nu+\alpha)}{\Gamma(\nu)} \mathcal{U}\left(\alpha, 1-\nu, \left(\frac{h}{\beta}\right)^2\right),

where \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \beta is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{U}(\cdot) is the confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind. For details about this covariance, see Ma and Bhadra (2023; doi:10.1080/01621459.2022.2027775).

cauchy

The generalized Cauchy covariance is given by

C(h) = \left\{ 1 + \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \right\}^{-\alpha/\nu},

where \phi is the range parameter. \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter with default value at 2.

matern

The Matérn correlation function is given by

C(h)=\frac{2^{1-\nu}}{\Gamma(\nu)} \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \mathcal{K}_{\nu}\left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right),

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{K}_{\nu}(\cdot) is the modified Bessel function of the second kind of order \nu.

exp: This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=0.5. This covariance should be specified as matern with smoothness parameter \nu=0.5.
matern_3_2: This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=1.5. This covariance should be specified as matern with smoothness parameter \nu=1.5.
matern_5_2: This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=2.5. This covariance should be specified as matern with smoothness parameter \nu=2.5.

powexp

The powered-exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left\{-\left(\frac{h}{\phi}\right)^{\nu}\right\},

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter.

gauss

The Gaussian correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left(-\frac{h^2}{\phi^2}\right),

where \phi is the range parameter.

form

isotropic

This indicates the isotropic form of covariance functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0(\|\mathbf{h}\|; \boldsymbol \theta),

where \| \mathbf{h}\| denotes the Euclidean distance or the great circle distance for data on sphere. C^0(\cdot) denotes any isotropic covariance family specified in family.

tensor

This indicates the tensor product of correlation functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = \prod_{i=1}^d C^0(|h_i|; \boldsymbol \theta_i),

ARD

This indicates the automatic relevance determination form. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0\left(\sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^d\frac{h_i^2}{\phi^2_i}}; \boldsymbol \theta \right),

where \phi_i denotes the range parameter along the ith input dimension.

Value

a list of matrices

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Examples

input = seq(0,1,length=10)
d = distance(input,input,type="isotropic",dtype="Euclidean")
dR = deriv_kernel(d,range=0.5,tail=0.2,nu=2.5,
         covmodel=list(family="CH",form="isotropic"))

Compute distances for two sets of inputs

Description

This function computes distances for two sets of inputs and returns a R object.

Usage

distance(input1, input2, type = "isotropic", dtype = "Euclidean")

Arguments

input1

a matrix of inputs

input2

a matrix of inputs

type

a string indicating the form of distances with three froms supported currently: isotropic, tensor, ARD.

dtype

a string indicating distance type: Euclidean, GCD, where the latter indicates great circle distance.

Value

a R object holding distances for two sets of inputs. If type is isotropic, a matrix of distances is returned; if type is tensor or ARD, a list of distance matrices along each input dimension is returned.

a numeric vector or matrix of distances

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Examples

input = seq(0,1,length=20)
d = distance(input, input, type="isotropic", dtype="Euclidean")

Construct the `S4` object gp

Description

This function constructs the S4 object gp that is used for Gaussian process model fitting and prediction.

Usage

gp(
  formula = ~1,
  output,
  input,
  param,
  smooth.est = FALSE,
  cov.model = list(family = "CH", form = "isotropic"),
  dtype = "Euclidean"
)

Arguments

formula

an object of formula class that specifies regressors; see formula for details.

output

a numerical vector including observations or outputs in a GaSP

input

a matrix including inputs in a GaSP

param

a list including values for regression parameters, covariance parameters, and nugget variance parameter. The specification of param should depend on the covariance model.

The regression parameters are denoted by coeff. Default value is \mathbf{0}.
The marginal variance or partial sill is denoted by sig2. Default value is 1.
The nugget variance parameter is denoted by nugget for all covariance models. Default value is 0.
For the Confluent Hypergeometric class, range is used to denote the range parameter \beta. tail is used to denote the tail decay parameter \alpha. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu.
For the generalized Cauchy class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. tail is used to denote the tail decay parameter \alpha. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu.
For the Matérn class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu. When \nu=0.5, the Matérn class corresponds to the exponential covariance.
For the powered-exponential class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter. When \nu=2, the powered-exponential class corresponds to the Gaussian covariance.

smooth.est

a logical value indicating whether smoothness parameter will be estimated.

cov.model

family

CH

The Confluent Hypergeometric correlation function is given by

C(h) = \frac{\Gamma(\nu+\alpha)}{\Gamma(\nu)} \mathcal{U}\left(\alpha, 1-\nu, \left(\frac{h}{\beta}\right)^2\right),

where \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \beta is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{U}(\cdot) is the confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind. For details about this covariance, see Ma and Bhadra (2023; doi:10.1080/01621459.2022.2027775).

cauchy

The generalized Cauchy covariance is given by

C(h) = \left\{ 1 + \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \right\}^{-\alpha/\nu},

where \phi is the range parameter. \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter with default value at 2.

matern

The Matérn correlation function is given by

C(h)=\frac{2^{1-\nu}}{\Gamma(\nu)} \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \mathcal{K}_{\nu}\left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right),

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{K}_{\nu}(\cdot) is the modified Bessel function of the second kind of order \nu.

exp

The exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp(-h/\phi),

where \phi is the range parameter. This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=0.5.

matern_3_2

The Matérn correlation with \nu=1.5.

matern_5_2

The Matérn correlation with \nu=2.5.

powexp

The powered-exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left\{-\left(\frac{h}{\phi}\right)^{\nu}\right\},

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter.

gauss

The Gaussian correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left(-\frac{h^2}{\phi^2}\right),

where \phi is the range parameter.

form

isotropic

This indicates the isotropic form of covariance functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0(\|\mathbf{h}\|; \boldsymbol \theta),

where \| \mathbf{h}\| denotes the Euclidean distance or the great circle distance for data on sphere. C^0(\cdot) denotes any isotropic covariance family specified in family.

tensor

This indicates the tensor product of correlation functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = \prod_{i=1}^d C^0(|h_i|; \boldsymbol \theta_i),

ARD

This indicates the automatic relevance determination form. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0\left(\sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^d\frac{h_i^2}{\phi^2_i}}; \boldsymbol \theta \right),

where \phi_i denotes the range parameter along the ith input dimension.

dtype

a string indicating the type of distance:

Euclidean: Euclidean distance is used. This is the default choice.
GCD: Great circle distance is used for data on sphere.

Value

an S4 object of gp class

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Examples

 
code = function(x){
y = (sin(pi*x/5) + 0.2*cos(4*pi*x/5))*(x<=9.6) + (x/10-1)*(x>9.6) 
return(y)
}
n=100
input = seq(0, 20, length=n)
XX = seq(0, 20, length=99)
Ztrue = code(input)
set.seed(1234)
output = Ztrue + rnorm(length(Ztrue), sd=0.1)
obj = gp(formula=~1, output, input, 
        param=list(range=4, nugget=0.1,nu=2.5),
        smooth.est=FALSE,
        cov.model=list(family="matern", form="isotropic"))

The `gp` class

Description

This is an S4 class definition for gp in the GaSP package.

Slots

formula

an object of formula class that specifies regressors; see formula for details.

output

a numerical vector including observations or outputs in a GaSP

input

a matrix including inputs in a GaSP

param

a list including values for regression parameters, correlation parameters, and nugget variance parameter. The specification of param should depend on the covariance model.

The regression parameters are denoted by coeff. Default value is \mathbf{0}.
The marginal variance or partial sill is denoted by sig2. Default value is 1.
The nugget variance parameter is denoted by nugget for all covariance models. Default value is 0.
For the Confluent Hypergeometric class, range is used to denote the range parameter \beta. tail is used to denote the tail decay parameter \alpha. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu.
For the generalized Cauchy class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. tail is used to denote the tail decay parameter \alpha. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu.
For the Matérn class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu. When \nu=0.5, the Matérn class corresponds to the exponential covariance.
For the powered-exponential class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter. When \nu=2, the powered-exponential class corresponds to the Gaussian covariance.

cov.model

family

CH

The Confluent Hypergeometric correlation function is given by

C(h) = \frac{\Gamma(\nu+\alpha)}{\Gamma(\nu)} \mathcal{U}\left(\alpha, 1-\nu, \left(\frac{h}{\beta}\right)^2\right),

cauchy

The generalized Cauchy covariance is given by

C(h) = \left\{ 1 + \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \right\}^{-\alpha/\nu},

where \phi is the range parameter. \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter with default value at 2.

matern

The Matérn correlation function is given by

C(h)=\frac{2^{1-\nu}}{\Gamma(\nu)} \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \mathcal{K}_{\nu}\left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right),

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{K}_{\nu}(\cdot) is the modified Bessel function of the second kind of order \nu.

exp

The exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp(-h/\phi),

where \phi is the range parameter. This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=0.5.

matern_3_2

The Matérn correlation with \nu=1.5.

matern_5_2

The Matérn correlation with \nu=2.5.

powexp

The powered-exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left\{-\left(\frac{h}{\phi}\right)^{\nu}\right\},

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter.

gauss

The Gaussian correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left(-\frac{h^2}{\phi^2}\right),

where \phi is the range parameter.

form

isotropic

This indicates the isotropic form of covariance functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0(\|\mathbf{h}\|; \boldsymbol \theta),

where \| \mathbf{h}\| denotes the Euclidean distance or the great circle distance for data on sphere. C^0(\cdot) denotes any isotropic covariance family specified in family.

tensor

This indicates the tensor product of correlation functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = \prod_{i=1}^d C^0(|h_i|; \boldsymbol \theta_i),

ARD

This indicates the automatic relevance determination form. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0\left(\sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^d\frac{h_i^2}{\phi^2_i}}; \boldsymbol \theta \right),

where \phi_i denotes the range parameter along the ith input dimension.

smooth.est

a logical value. If it is TRUE, the smoothness parameter will be estimated; otherwise the smoothness is not estimated.

dtype

a string indicating the type of distance:

Euclidean: Euclidean distance is used. This is the default choice.
GCD: Great circle distance is used for data on sphere.

loglik

a numerical value containing the log-likelihood with current gp object.

mcmc

a list containing MCMC samples if available.

prior

a list containing tuning parameters in prior distribution. This is used only if a Bayes estimation method with informative priors is used.

proposal

a list containing tuning parameters in proposal distribution. This is used only if a Bayes estimation method is used.

info

a list containing the maximum distance in the input space. It should be a vector if isotropic covariance is used, otherwise it is vector of maximum distances along each input dimension

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Perform conditional simulation from a Gaussian process

Description

This function simulate from the Gaussian process model conditional on existing data (i.e., locations, observations). This is known as conditional simulation in geostatistics, which simulates realizations from the (posterior) predictive distribution of the process given the data.

Usage

gp.condsim(obj, XX, nsample = 1, seed = NULL)

Arguments

obj

an S4 object gp

XX

a matrix of new locations where conditional simulation is performed.

nsample

number of conditional simulations default at 1

seed

random generation seed default to be NULL.

Value

an array (vector or matrix) of conditional simulations

Fisher information matrix

Description

This function computes the Fisher information matrix I(\sigma^2, \boldsymbol \theta) for a Gaussian process model y(\cdot) \sim \mathcal{GP}(h^\top(\mathbf{x})\mathbf{b}, \sigma^2 c(\cdot, \cdot) ), where c(\mathbf{x}_1, \mathbf{x}_2) = r(\mathbf{x}_1, \mathbf{x}_2) + \tau^2\mathbf{1}(\mathbf{x}_1=\mathbf{x}_2) with correlation function r(\cdot, \cdot) and nugget parameter \tau^2; \mathbf{b} is a vector of regression coefficients, \sigma^2 is the variance parameter (or partial sill).

Given n data points that are assumed to be realizations from the GP model, the standard likelihood is defined as

L(\mathbf{b}, \sigma^2, \boldsymbol \theta; \mathbf{y}) = \mathcal{N}_n(\mathbf{H}\mathbf{b}, \sigma^2 (\mathbf{R} + \tau^2\mathbf{I}) ),

where \mathbf{y}:=(y(\mathbf{x}_1), \ldots, y(\mathbf{x}_n))^\top is a vector of n observations. \mathbf{H} is a matrix of covariates, \boldsymbol \theta contains correlation parameters and nugget parameter, \mathbf{R} denotes the n-by-n correlation matrix.

The integrated likelihood is defined as

L^{I}(\sigma^2, \boldsymbol \theta; \mathbf{y}) = \int L(\mathbf{b}, \sigma^2, \boldsymbol \theta; \mathbf{y}) \pi^{R}(\mathbf{b} \mid \sigma^2, \boldsymbol \theta) d \mathbf{b},

where \pi^{R}(\mathbf{b} \mid \sigma^2, \boldsymbol \theta)=1 is the conditional Jeffreys-rule (or reference prior) in the model with the above standard likelihood when (\sigma^2, \boldsymbol \theta) is assumed to be known.

For the Matérn class, current implementation only computes Fisher information matrix for variance parameter \sigma^2, range parameter \phi, and nugget variance parameter \tau^2. That is, I(\sigma^2, \boldsymbol \theta) = I(\sigma^2, \phi, \tau^2).
For the Confluent Hypergeometric class, current implementation computes Fisher information matrix for variance parameter \sigma^2, range parameter \beta, tail decay parameter \alpha, smoothness parameter \nu and nugget variance parameter \tau^2. That is, I(\sigma^2, \boldsymbol \theta) = I(\sigma^2, \beta, \alpha, \nu, \tau^2).

Usage

gp.fisher(
  obj = NULL,
  intloglik = FALSE,
  formula = ~1,
  input = NULL,
  param = NULL,
  cov.model = NULL,
  dtype = "Euclidean"
)

Arguments

obj

a gp object. It is optional with default value NULL.

intloglik

a logical value with default value FALSE. If it is FALSE, Fisher information matrix I(\sigma^2, \boldsymbol \theta) is derived based on the standard likelihood; otherwise, Fisher information matrix I(\sigma^2, \boldsymbol \theta) is derived based on the integrated likelihood.

formula

an object of formula class that specifies regressors; see formula for details.

input

a matrix including inputs in a GaSP

param

a list including values for regression parameters, covariance parameters, and nugget variance parameter. The specification of param should depend on the covariance model.

The regression parameters are denoted by coeff. Default value is \mathbf{0}.
The marginal variance or partial sill is denoted by sig2. Default value is 1.
The nugget variance parameter is denoted by nugget for all covariance models. Default value is 0.
For the Confluent Hypergeometric class, range is used to denote the range parameter \beta. tail is used to denote the tail decay parameter \alpha. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu.
For the generalized Cauchy class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. tail is used to denote the tail decay parameter \alpha. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu.
For the Matérn class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu. When \nu=0.5, the Matérn class corresponds to the exponential covariance.
For the powered-exponential class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter. When \nu=2, the powered-exponential class corresponds to the Gaussian covariance.

cov.model

family

CH

The Confluent Hypergeometric correlation function is given by

C(h) = \frac{\Gamma(\nu+\alpha)}{\Gamma(\nu)} \mathcal{U}\left(\alpha, 1-\nu, \left(\frac{h}{\beta}\right)^2\right),

where \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \beta is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{U}(\cdot) is the confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind. For details about this covariance, see Ma and Bhadra (2023; doi:10.1080/01621459.2022.2027775).

cauchy

The generalized Cauchy covariance is given by

C(h) = \left\{ 1 + \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \right\}^{-\alpha/\nu},

where \phi is the range parameter. \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter with default value at 2.

matern

The Matérn correlation function is given by

C(h)=\frac{2^{1-\nu}}{\Gamma(\nu)} \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \mathcal{K}_{\nu}\left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right),

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{K}_{\nu}(\cdot) is the modified Bessel function of the second kind of order \nu.

exp

The exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp(-h/\phi),

where \phi is the range parameter. This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=0.5.

matern_3_2

The Matérn correlation with \nu=1.5.

matern_5_2

The Matérn correlation with \nu=2.5.

powexp

The powered-exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left\{-\left(\frac{h}{\phi}\right)^{\nu}\right\},

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter.

gauss

The Gaussian correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left(-\frac{h^2}{\phi^2}\right),

where \phi is the range parameter.

form

isotropic

This indicates the isotropic form of covariance functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0(\|\mathbf{h}\|; \boldsymbol \theta),

where \| \mathbf{h}\| denotes the Euclidean distance or the great circle distance for data on sphere. C^0(\cdot) denotes any isotropic covariance family specified in family.

tensor

This indicates the tensor product of correlation functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = \prod_{i=1}^d C^0(|h_i|; \boldsymbol \theta_i),

ARD

This indicates the automatic relevance determination form. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0\left(\sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^d\frac{h_i^2}{\phi^2_i}}; \boldsymbol \theta \right),

where \phi_i denotes the range parameter along the ith input dimension.

dtype

a string indicating the type of distance:

Euclidean: Euclidean distance is used. This is the default choice.
GCD: Great circle distance is used for data on sphere.

Value

a numerical matrix of Fisher information

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Examples

 
n=100
input = seq(0, 20, length=n)
range = 1
tail = .5
nu = 1.5
sig2 = 1
nugget = 0.01
coeff = 0
par = list(range=range, tail=tail, nu=nu, sig2=sig2, nugget=nugget, coeff=coeff)
I = gp.fisher(formula=~1, input=input, 
        param=list(range=4, nugget=0.1,nu=2.5),
        cov.model=list(family="CH", form="isotropic"))

get posterior summary for MCMC samples

Description

This function processes posterior samples in the gp object.

Usage

gp.get.mcmc(obj, burnin = 500)

Arguments

obj

a gp object

burnin

a numerical value specifying the burn-in period for calculating posterior summaries.

Value

a list of posterior summaries

A wraper to fit a Gaussian stochastic process model with MCMC algorithms

Description

This function is a wraper to estimate parameters via MCMC algorithms in the GaSP model with different choices of priors.

Usage

gp.mcmc(
  obj,
  input.new = NULL,
  method = "Cauchy_prior",
  prior = list(),
  proposal = list(),
  nsample = 10000,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

obj

an S4 object gp

input.new

a matrix of prediction locations. Default value is NULL, indicating that prediction is not carried out along with parameter estimation in the MCMC algorithm.

method

a string indicating the Bayes estimation approaches with different choices of priors on correlation parameters:

Cauchy_prior: This indicates that a fully Bayesian approach with objective priors is used for parameter estimation, where location-scale parameters are assigned with constant priors and correlation parameters are assigned with half-Cauchy priors (default). If the smoothness parameter is estimated for isotropic covariance functions, the smoothness parameter is assigned with a uniform prior on (0, 4), indicating that the corresponding GP is at most four times mean-square differentiable. This is a reasonable prior belief for modeling spatial processes; If the smoothness parameter is estimated for tensor or ARD covariance functions, the smoothness parameter is assigned with a uniform prior on (0, 6).
Ref_prior: This indicates that a fully Bayesian approach with objective priors is used for parameter estimation, where location-scale parameters are assigned with constant priors and correlation parameters are assigned with reference priors. If the smoothness parameter is estimated for isotropic covariance functions, the smoothness parameter is assigned with a uniform prior on (0, 4), indicating that the corresponding GP is at most four times mean-square differentiable. This is a reasonable prior belief for modeling spatial processes; If the smoothness parameter is estimated for tensor or ARD covariance functions, the smoothness parameter is assigned with a uniform prior on (0, 6).
Beta_prior: This indicates that a fully Bayesian approach with subjective priors is used for parameter estimation, where location-scale parameters are assigned with constant priors and correlation parameters are assigned with beta priors parameterized as Beta(a, b, lb, ub). In the beta distribution, lb and ub are the support for correlation parameters, and they should be determined based on domain knowledge. a and b are two shape parameters with default values at 1, corresponding to the uniform prior over the support (lb, ub).

prior

a list containing tuning parameters in prior distributions. This is used only if a Bayes estimation method with subjective priors is used.

proposal

a list containing tuning parameters in proposal distributions. This is used only if a Bayes estimation method is used.

nsample

an integer indicating the number of MCMC samples.

verbose

a logical value. If it is TRUE, the MCMC progress bar is shown.

Value

a gp object with prior, proposal, MCMC samples included.

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Examples

 
 
code = function(x){
y = (sin(pi*x/5) + 0.2*cos(4*pi*x/5))*(x<=9.6) + (x/10-1)*(x>9.6) 
return(y)
}
n=100
input = seq(0, 20, length=n)
XX = seq(0, 20, length=99)
Ztrue = code(input)
set.seed(1234)
output = Ztrue + rnorm(length(Ztrue), sd=0.1)
obj = gp(formula=~1, output, input, 
        param=list(range=4, nugget=0.1,nu=2.5),
        smooth.est=FALSE,
        cov.model=list(family="matern", form="isotropic"))
        
fit.mcmc = gp.mcmc(obj, method="Cauchy_prior",
                   proposal=list(range=0.3, nugget=0.8),
                   nsample=100, verbose=TRUE)

Model assessment based on Deviance information criterion (DIC), logarithmic pointwise predictive density (lppd), and logarithmic joint predictive density (ljpd).

Description

This function computes effective number of parameters (pD), deviance information criterion (DIC), logarithmic pointwise predictive density (lppd), and logarithmic joint predictive density (ljpd). For detailed introduction of these metrics, see Chapter 7 of Gelman et al. (2013).

The deviance function for a model with a vector of parameters \boldsymbol \theta is defined as

D(\boldsymbol \theta) = -2\log p(\mathbf{y} \mid \boldsymbol \theta),

where \mathbf{y}:=(y(\mathbf{x}_1), \ldots, y(\mathbf{x}_n))^\top is a vector of n observations.

The effective number of parameters (see p.172 of Gelman et al. 2013) is defined as

pD = E_{\boldsymbol \theta| \mathbf{y}}[D(\boldsymbol \theta)] - D(\hat{ \boldsymbol \theta }),

where \hat{\boldsymbol \theta} = E_{\boldsymbol \theta | \mathbf{y}}[\boldsymbol \theta]. The interpretation is that the effective number of parameters is the “expected" deviance minus the “fitted" deviance. Higher pD implies more over-fitting with estimate \hat{\boldsymbol \theta}.
The Deviance information criteria (DIC) (see pp. 172-173 of Gelman et al. 2013) is

DIC = E_{\boldsymbol \theta | \mathbf{y}}[D(\boldsymbol \theta)] + pD.

DIC approximates Akaike information criterion (AIC) and is more appropriate for hierarchical models than AIC and BIC.
The log predictive density (lpd) is defined as

p(y(\mathbf{x}_0) \mid \mathbf{y}) = \int p(y(\mathbf{x}_0) \mid \boldsymbol \theta, \mathbf{y}) p(\boldsymbol \theta \mid \mathbf{y}) d \boldsymbol \theta,

where \mathbf{y}:=(y(\mathbf{x}_1), \ldots, y(\mathbf{x}_n))^\top is a vector of n observations. \boldsymbol \theta contains correlation parameters and nugget parameter. This predictive density should be understood as an update of the likelihood since data is treated as prior information now. With a set of prediction locations \mathcal{X}:=\{x_0^i: i=1, \ldots, m\}. The log pointwise predictive density (lppd) is defined as

lppd = \sum_{i=1}^m \log p(y(\mathbf{x}_0^i) \mid \mathbf{y}).

The log joint predictive density (ljpd) is defined as

ljpd = \log p(y(\mathcal{X})).

The lppd is connected to cross-validation, while the ljpd measures joint uncertainty across prediction locations.

Usage

gp.model.adequacy(
  obj,
  testing.input,
  testing.output,
  pointwise = TRUE,
  joint = TRUE
)

Arguments

obj

a gp object.

testing.input

a matrix of testing inputs

testing.output

a vector of testing outputs

pointwise

a logical value with default value TRUE. If it is TRUE, lppd is calculated.

joint

a logical value with default value TRUE. If it is TRUE, ljpd is calculated.

Value

a list containing pD, DIC, lppd, ljpd.

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

References

Gelman, Andrew, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, David B. Dunson, Aki Vehtari, and Donald B. Rubin (2013). Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition. CRC Press.

A wraper to fit a Gaussian stochastic process model with optimization methods

Description

This function is a wraper to estimate parameters in the GaSP model with different choices of estimation methods using numerical optimization methods.

Usage

gp.optim(obj, method = "MMLE", opt = NULL, bound = NULL)

Arguments

obj

an S4 object gp

method

a string indicating the parameter estimation method:

MPLE: This indicates that the maximum profile likelihood estimation (MPLE) is used.
MMLE: This indicates that the maximum marginal likelihood estimation (MMLE) is used.
MAP: This indicates that the marginal/integrated posterior is maximized.

opt

a list of arguments to setup the optim routine. Current implementation uses three arguments:

method: The optimization method: Nelder-Mead or L-BFGS-B.
lower: The lower bound for parameters.
upper: The upper bound for parameters.

bound

Default value is NULL. Otherwise, it should be a list containing the following elements depending on the covariance class:

nugget: a list of bounds for the nugget parameter. It is a list containing lower bound lb and upper bound ub with default value list(lb=0, ub=Inf).
range: a list of bounds for the range parameter. Tt has default value range=list(lb=0, ub=Inf) for the Confluent Hypergeometric covariance, the Matérn covariance, exponential covariance, Gaussian covariance, powered-exponential covariance, and Cauchy covariance. The log of range parameterization is used: \log(\phi).
tail: a list of bounds for the tail decay parameter. It has default value list(lb=0, ub=Inf)

for the Confluent Hypergeometric covariance and the Cauchy covariance.

nu: a list of bounds for the smoothness parameter. It has default value list(lb=0, ub=Inf) for the Confluent Hypergeometric covariance and the Matérn covariance. when the powered-exponential or Cauchy class is used, it has default value nu=list(lb=0, ub=2). This can be achived by specifying the lower bound in opt.

Value

a list of updated gp object obj and fitted information fit

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Examples

 
code = function(x){
y = (sin(pi*x/5) + 0.2*cos(4*pi*x/5))*(x<=9.6) + (x/10-1)*(x>9.6) 
return(y)
}
n=100
input = seq(0, 20, length=n)
XX = seq(0, 20, length=99)
Ztrue = code(input)
set.seed(1234)
output = Ztrue + rnorm(length(Ztrue), sd=0.1)
obj = gp(formula=~1, output, input, 
        param=list(range=4, nugget=0.1,nu=2.5),
        smooth.est=FALSE,
        cov.model=list(family="matern", form="isotropic"))
        
fit.optim = gp.optim(obj, method="MPLE")

Prediction at new inputs based on a Gaussian stochastic process model

Description

This function provides the capability to make prediction based on a GaSP when different estimation methods are employed.

Usage

gp.predict(obj, input.new, method = "Bayes")

Arguments

obj

an S4 object gp

input.new

a matrix of new input lomessageions

method

a string indicating the parameter estimation method:

MPLE: This indicates that the maximum profile likelihood estimation (MPLE) is used. This correponds to simple kriging formulas
MMLE: This indicates that the maximum marginal likelihood estimation (MMLE) is used. This corresponds to universal kriging formulas when the vairance parameter is not integrated out. If the variance parameter is integrated out, the predictive variance differs from the universal kriging variance by the factor \frac{n-q}{n-q-2}, since the predictive distribution is a Student's t-distribution with degrees of freedom n-q.
MAP: This indicates that the posterior estimates of model parameters are plugged into the posterior predictive distribution. Thus this approach does not take account into uncertainty in model parameters (range, tail, nu, nugget).
Bayes: This indicates that a fully Bayesian approach is used for parameter estimation (and hence prediction). This approach takes into account uncertainty in all model parameters.

Value

a list of predictive mean, predictive standard deviation, 95% predictive intervals

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Examples


 
code = function(x){
y = (sin(pi*x/5) + 0.2*cos(4*pi*x/5))*(x<=9.6) + (x/10-1)*(x>9.6) 
return(y)
}
n=100
input = seq(0, 20, length=n)
XX = seq(0, 20, length=99)
Ztrue = code(input)
set.seed(1234)
output = Ztrue + rnorm(length(Ztrue), sd=0.1)
obj = gp(formula=~1, output, input, 
        param=list(range=4, nugget=0.1,nu=2.5),
        smooth.est=FALSE,
        cov.model=list(family="matern", form="isotropic"))
 
fit.optim = gp.optim(obj, method="MMLE")
obj = fit.optim$obj
pred = gp.predict(obj, input.new=XX, method="MMLE")

Simulate from a Gaussian stochastic process model

Description

This function simulates realizations from Gaussian processes.

Usage

gp.sim(
  formula = ~1,
  input,
  param,
  cov.model = list(family = "CH", form = "isotropic"),
  dtype = "Euclidean",
  nsample = 1,
  seed = NULL
)

Arguments

formula

an object of formula class that specifies regressors; see formula for details.

input

a matrix including inputs in a GaSP

param

a list including values for regression parameters, covariance parameters, and nugget variance parameter. The specification of param should depend on the covariance model.

The regression parameters are denoted by coeff. Default value is \mathbf{0}.
The marginal variance or partial sill is denoted by sig2. Default value is 1.
The nugget variance parameter is denoted by nugget for all covariance models. Default value is 0.
For the Confluent Hypergeometric class, range is used to denote the range parameter \beta. tail is used to denote the tail decay parameter \alpha. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu.
For the generalized Cauchy class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. tail is used to denote the tail decay parameter \alpha. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu.
For the Matérn class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter \nu. When \nu=0.5, the Matérn class corresponds to the exponential covariance.
For the powered-exponential class, range is used to denote the range parameter \phi. nu is used to denote the smoothness parameter. When \nu=2, the powered-exponential class corresponds to the Gaussian covariance.

cov.model

family

CH

The Confluent Hypergeometric correlation function is given by

C(h) = \frac{\Gamma(\nu+\alpha)}{\Gamma(\nu)} \mathcal{U}\left(\alpha, 1-\nu, \left(\frac{h}{\beta}\right)^2\right),

where \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \beta is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{U}(\cdot) is the confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind. For details about this covariance, see Ma and Bhadra (2023; doi:10.1080/01621459.2022.2027775).

cauchy

The generalized Cauchy covariance is given by

C(h) = \left\{ 1 + \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \right\}^{-\alpha/\nu},

where \phi is the range parameter. \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter with default value at 2.

matern

The Matérn correlation function is given by

C(h)=\frac{2^{1-\nu}}{\Gamma(\nu)} \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \mathcal{K}_{\nu}\left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right),

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{K}_{\nu}(\cdot) is the modified Bessel function of the second kind of order \nu.

exp

The exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp(-h/\phi),

where \phi is the range parameter. This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=0.5.

matern_3_2

The Matérn correlation with \nu=1.5.

matern_5_2

The Matérn correlation with \nu=2.5.

powexp

The powered-exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left\{-\left(\frac{h}{\phi}\right)^{\nu}\right\},

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter.

gauss

The Gaussian correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left(-\frac{h^2}{\phi^2}\right),

where \phi is the range parameter.

form

isotropic

This indicates the isotropic form of covariance functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0(\|\mathbf{h}\|; \boldsymbol \theta),

where \| \mathbf{h}\| denotes the Euclidean distance or the great circle distance for data on sphere. C^0(\cdot) denotes any isotropic covariance family specified in family.

tensor

This indicates the tensor product of correlation functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = \prod_{i=1}^d C^0(|h_i|; \boldsymbol \theta_i),

ARD

This indicates the automatic relevance determination form. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0\left(\sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^d\frac{h_i^2}{\phi^2_i}}; \boldsymbol \theta \right),

where \phi_i denotes the range parameter along the ith input dimension.

dtype

a string indicating the type of distance:

Euclidean: Euclidean distance is used. This is the default choice.
GCD: Great circle distance is used for data on sphere.

nsample

an integer indicating the number of realizations from a Gaussian process

seed

a number specifying random number seed

Value

a numerical vector or a matrix

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Examples


n=50
y.sim = gp.sim(input=seq(0,1,length=n),
               param=list(range=0.5,nugget=0.1,nu=2.5),
               cov.model=list(family="matern",form="isotropic"),
               seed=123)

A wraper to build different kinds of correlation matrices between two sets of inputs

Description

This function wraps existing built-in routines to construct a covariance matrix for two input matrices based on data type, covariance type, and distance type. The constructed covariance matrix can be directly used for GaSP fitting and and prediction for spatial data, spatio-temporal data, and computer experiments. This function explicitly takes inputs as arguments. The prefix “i" in ikernel standards for “input".

Usage

ikernel(input1, input2, range, tail, nu, covmodel, dtype = "Euclidean")

Arguments

input1

a matrix of input locations

input2

a matrix of input locations

range

a vector of range parameters, which could be a scalar.

tail

a vector of tail decay parameters, which could be a scalar.

nu

a vector of smoothness parameters, which could be a scalar.

covmodel

family

CH

The Confluent Hypergeometric correlation function is given by

C(h) = \frac{\Gamma(\nu+\alpha)}{\Gamma(\nu)} \mathcal{U}\left(\alpha, 1-\nu, \left(\frac{h}{\beta}\right)^2\right),

where \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \beta is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{U}(\cdot) is the confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind. For details about this covariance, see Ma and Bhadra (2023; doi:10.1080/01621459.2022.2027775).

cauchy

The generalized Cauchy covariance is given by

C(h) = \left\{ 1 + \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \right\}^{-\alpha/\nu},

where \phi is the range parameter. \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter with default value at 2.

matern

The Matérn correlation function is given by

C(h)=\frac{2^{1-\nu}}{\Gamma(\nu)} \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \mathcal{K}_{\nu}\left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right),

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{K}_{\nu}(\cdot) is the modified Bessel function of the second kind of order \nu.

exp: This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=0.5. This covariance should be specified as matern with smoothness parameter \nu=0.5.
matern_3_2: This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=1.5. This covariance should be specified as matern with smoothness parameter \nu=1.5.
matern_5_2: This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=2.5. This covariance should be specified as matern with smoothness parameter \nu=2.5.

powexp

The powered-exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left\{-\left(\frac{h}{\phi}\right)^{\nu}\right\},

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter.

gauss

The Gaussian correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left(-\frac{h^2}{\phi^2}\right),

where \phi is the range parameter.

form

isotropic

This indicates the isotropic form of covariance functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0(\|\mathbf{h}\|; \boldsymbol \theta),

where \| \mathbf{h}\| denotes the Euclidean distance or the great circle distance for data on sphere. C^0(\cdot) denotes any isotropic covariance family specified in family.

tensor

This indicates the tensor product of correlation functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = \prod_{i=1}^d C^0(|h_i|; \boldsymbol \theta_i),

ARD

This indicates the automatic relevance determination form. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0\left(\sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^d\frac{h_i^2}{\phi^2_i}}; \boldsymbol \theta \right),

where \phi_i denotes the range parameter along the ith input dimension.

dtype

a string indicating distance type: Euclidean, GCD, where the latter indicates great circle distance.

Value

a correlation matrix

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Examples

input = seq(0,1,length=10)

cormat = ikernel(input,input,range=0.5,tail=0.2,nu=2.5,
         covmodel=list(family="CH",form="isotropic"))

A wraper to build different kinds of correlation matrices with distance as arguments

Description

This function wraps existing built-in routines to construct a covariance matrix based on data type, covariance type, and distance type with distances as inputs. The constructed covariance matrix can be directly used for GaSP fitting and and prediction for spatial data, spatio-temporal data, and computer experiments.

Usage

kernel(d, range, tail, nu, covmodel)

Arguments

d

a matrix or a list of distances

range

a vector of range parameters, which could be a scalar.

tail

a vector of tail decay parameters, which could be a scalar.

nu

a vector of smoothness parameters, which could be a scalar.

covmodel

family

CH

The Confluent Hypergeometric correlation function is given by

C(h) = \frac{\Gamma(\nu+\alpha)}{\Gamma(\nu)} \mathcal{U}\left(\alpha, 1-\nu, \left(\frac{h}{\beta}\right)^2\right),

where \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \beta is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{U}(\cdot) is the confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind. For details about this covariance, see Ma and Bhadra (2023; doi:10.1080/01621459.2022.2027775).

cauchy

The generalized Cauchy covariance is given by

C(h) = \left\{ 1 + \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \right\}^{-\alpha/\nu},

where \phi is the range parameter. \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter with default value at 2.

matern

The Matérn correlation function is given by

C(h)=\frac{2^{1-\nu}}{\Gamma(\nu)} \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \mathcal{K}_{\nu}\left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right),

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{K}_{\nu}(\cdot) is the modified Bessel function of the second kind of order \nu.

exp: This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=0.5. This covariance should be specified as matern with smoothness parameter \nu=0.5.
matern_3_2: This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=1.5. This covariance should be specified as matern with smoothness parameter \nu=1.5.
matern_5_2: This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=2.5. This covariance should be specified as matern with smoothness parameter \nu=2.5.

powexp

The powered-exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left\{-\left(\frac{h}{\phi}\right)^{\nu}\right\},

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter.

gauss

The Gaussian correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left(-\frac{h^2}{\phi^2}\right),

where \phi is the range parameter.

form

isotropic

This indicates the isotropic form of covariance functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0(\|\mathbf{h}\|; \boldsymbol \theta),

where \| \mathbf{h}\| denotes the Euclidean distance or the great circle distance for data on sphere. C^0(\cdot) denotes any isotropic covariance family specified in family.

tensor

This indicates the tensor product of correlation functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = \prod_{i=1}^d C^0(|h_i|; \boldsymbol \theta_i),

ARD

This indicates the automatic relevance determination form. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0\left(\sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^d\frac{h_i^2}{\phi^2_i}}; \boldsymbol \theta \right),

where \phi_i denotes the range parameter along the ith input dimension.

Value

a correlation matrix

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Examples

input = seq(0,1,length=10)
d = distance(input,input,type="isotropic",dtype="Euclidean")
cormat = kernel(d,range=0.5,tail=0.2,nu=2.5,
         covmodel=list(family="CH",form="isotropic"))

A wraper to compute the natural logarithm of the integrated likelihood function

Description

This function wraps existing built-in routines to construct the natural logarithm of the integrated likelihood function. The constructed loglikelihood can be directly used for numerical optimization

Usage

loglik(par, output, H, d, covmodel, smooth, smoothness_est)

Arguments

par

a numerical vector, with which numerical optimization routine such as optim can be carried out directly. When the confluent Hypergeometric class is used, it is used to hold values for range, tail, nugget, and nu if the smoothness parameter is estimated. When the Matérn class or powered-exponential class is used, it is used to hold values for range, nugget, and nu if the smoothness parameter is estimated. The order of the parameter values in par cannot be changed. For tensor or ARD form correlation functions, range and tail becomes a vector.

output

a matrix of outputs

H

a matrix of regressors in the mean function of a GaSP model.

d

an R object holding the distances. It should be a distance matrix for constructing isotropic correlation matrix, or a list of distance matrices along each input dimension for constructing tensor or ARD types of correlation matrix.

covmodel

family

CH

The Confluent Hypergeometric correlation function is given by

C(h) = \frac{\Gamma(\nu+\alpha)}{\Gamma(\nu)} \mathcal{U}\left(\alpha, 1-\nu, \left(\frac{h}{\beta}\right)^2\right),

where \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \beta is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{U}(\cdot) is the confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind. For details about this covariance, see Ma and Bhadra (2023; doi:10.1080/01621459.2022.2027775).

cauchy

The generalized Cauchy covariance is given by

C(h) = \left\{ 1 + \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \right\}^{-\alpha/\nu},

where \phi is the range parameter. \alpha is the tail decay parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter with default value at 2.

matern

The Matérn correlation function is given by

C(h)=\frac{2^{1-\nu}}{\Gamma(\nu)} \left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \mathcal{K}_{\nu}\left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right),

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{K}_{\nu}(\cdot) is the modified Bessel function of the second kind of order \nu.

exp: This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=0.5. This covariance should be specified as matern with smoothness parameter \nu=0.5.
matern_3_2: This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=1.5. This covariance should be specified as matern with smoothness parameter \nu=1.5.
matern_5_2: This is the Matérn correlation with \nu=2.5. This covariance should be specified as matern with smoothness parameter \nu=2.5.

powexp

The powered-exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left\{-\left(\frac{h}{\phi}\right)^{\nu}\right\},

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter.

gauss

The Gaussian correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left(-\frac{h^2}{\phi^2}\right),

where \phi is the range parameter.

form

isotropic

This indicates the isotropic form of covariance functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0(\|\mathbf{h}\|; \boldsymbol \theta),

where \| \mathbf{h}\| denotes the Euclidean distance or the great circle distance for data on sphere. C^0(\cdot) denotes any isotropic covariance family specified in family.

tensor

This indicates the tensor product of correlation functions. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = \prod_{i=1}^d C^0(|h_i|; \boldsymbol \theta_i),

ARD

This indicates the automatic relevance determination form. That is,

C(\mathbf{h}) = C^0\left(\sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^d\frac{h_i^2}{\phi^2_i}}; \boldsymbol \theta \right),

where \phi_i denotes the range parameter along the ith input dimension.

smooth

The smoothness parameter \nu in a correlation function.

smoothness_est

a logical value indicating whether the smoothness parameter is estimated.

Value

The natural logarithm of marginal or integrated likelihood

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

The Matérn correlation function proposed by Matérn (1960)

Description

This function computes the Matérn correlation function given a distance matrix. The Matérn correlation function is given by

C(h)=\frac{2^{1-\nu}}{\Gamma(\nu)} \left(\frac{h}{\phi} \right)^{\nu} \mathcal{K}_{\nu}\left( \frac{h}{\phi} \right),

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. \mathcal{K}_{\nu}(\cdot) is the modified Bessel function of the second kind of order \nu. The form of covariance includes the following special cases by specifying \nu to be 0.5, 1.5, 2.5.

\nu=0.5 corresponds to the exponential correlation function (exp) of the form

C(h) = \exp\left\{ - \frac{h}{\phi} \right\}
\nu=1.5 corresponds to the Matérn correlation function with smoothness parameter 1.5 (matern_3_2) of the form

C(h) = \left( 1 + \frac{h}{\phi} \right) \exp\left\{ - \frac{h}{\phi} \right\}
\nu=2.5 corresponds to the Matérn correlation function with smoothness parameter 2.5 (matern_5_2) of the form

C(h) = \left\{ 1 + \frac{h}{\phi} + \frac{1}{3}\left(\frac{h}{\phi}\right)^2 \right\} \exp\left\{ - \frac{h}{\phi} \right\}

Usage

matern(d, range, nu)

Arguments

d

a matrix of distances

range

a numerical value containing the range parameter

nu

a numerical value containing the smoothness parameter

Value

a numerical matrix

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

The powered-exponential correlation function

Description

This function computes the powered-exponential correlation function given a distance matrix. The powered-exponential correlation function is given by

C(h)=\exp\left\{-\left(\frac{h}{\phi}\right)^{\nu}\right\},

where \phi is the range parameter. \nu is the smoothness parameter. The case \nu=2 corresponds to the well-known Gaussian correlation.

Usage

powexp(d, range, nu)

Arguments

d

a matrix of distances

range

a numerical value containing the range parameter

nu

a numerical value containing the smoothness parameter

Value

a numerical matrix

Author(s)

Pulong Ma mpulong@gmail.com

Print the information an object of the `gp` class

Description

Print the information an object of the gp class

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'gp'
show(object)

Arguments

object

an object of gp class

Tools for Gaussian Stochastic Process Modeling in Uncertainty Quantification

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Modified Bessel function of the second kind

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The Confluent Hypergeometric correlation function proposed by Ma and Bhadra (2023)

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Building, fitting, predicting for a GaSP model

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Confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind

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The generalized Cauchy correlation function

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Find the correlation parameter given effective range

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A wraper to construct the derivative of correlation matrix with respect to correlation parameters

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Value

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Compute distances for two sets of inputs

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Value

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Construct the S4 object gp

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Value

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The gp class

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Perform conditional simulation from a Gaussian process

Construct the `S4` object gp

The `gp` class